Strong H4294H4294Kמַטֶּה
tribe: supply
One of the 5 senses of Strong H4294
- Transliteration
- maţţeh maţţâh
- Pronunciation
- {mat-teh'} mat-taw'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
: supply
1) staff, branch, tribe
1a) staff, rod, shaft
1b) branch (of vine)
1c) tribe
1c1) company led by chief with staff (originally)
1) staff, branch, tribe
1a) staff, rod, shaft
1b) branch (of vine)
1c) tribe
1c1) company led by chief with staff (originally)
General definition
From H5186; a branch (as extending); figuratively a tribe; also a {rod} whether for chastising (figuratively {correction }) ruling (a {sceptre }) throwing (a {lance }) or walking (a staff; figuratively a support of {life} for example bread): - {rod} {staff} tribe.
In the Bible
Strong H4294K appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- staff5
First verses
- Leviticus 26:26And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Psalms 105:16Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
- Ezekiel 4:16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
- Ezekiel 5:16When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
- Ezekiel 14:13Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: